THE STANFORD ARTS REVIEW

Freeks and Geeks: Laura Petree Takes on Stanford Theater

by KATHARINE SCHWAB

“We believe in the freaks, in their voices and stories and visions and spirit.

We believe in art that is fresh and intimate and fearless and weird.

We believe in art that is accessible to everyone.

We believe in art that accesses everyone.

We believe that art can be made with loose change and friends and tough fucking hustler heart.

We believe that without art there is nothing.

We believe that nothingness is not an option.”

Stanford Shakespeare Company presents: Love’s Labour’s Lost.

by CHI LING CHAN

[A review of the Stanford Shakespeare Co.’s preview on 21 May 2013]

It’s Party at Phi-Psi, Shakespeare-style.

For the next couple nights, the front lawn of Phi Kappa Psi - usually calm and still as a millpond (for real fratboy action, go indoors)- will be turned into a battlefield to a dangerous sport. The game is love. Not the tragic, tear-jerking romeo-and-juliet kind that this company had previously proved so adept in - but the sort that hurtles testosterone-charged teenagers to the ground. No one leaves the field uninjured, nor without hilarious mudslinging. And for the audience, expect an evening clotted with wordplay that will bowl you over.

Waiting for Godot: The Most Important Play You’ll Ever See

by KATIE STRAUB

Why I love Samuel Beckett… and why you should, too.

When I arrived at the box office for the Marin Theatre Company production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, I was the only audience member without hearing aids or a walker.